IMO the only real flaw of BJJ is that it's made almost exclusively for duel, you hardly can handle more than one adversary at the time with it. Also once you're on the ground you can't just run away if need be you have to get up first... I think wanderlei silva had the best approach when it comes to it; he mostly used his BJJ black belt to escape ground fighting whenever possible in order to get back to stand up and impose his thai game
That dude was a wrecking ball back in the day. I didn't really watch any Pride fights I was kind of not into fighting sports at that time. I wish they promotions would cross promote with each other and then truly have a title bout. But Dana White is such a fucking cheap jew that it'll never happen. I barely watch UFC fights now. I just don't find them interesting anymore.
The corner stone of the chute boxe strategy, was the "penalty kick" and "stomp kick", it really is a game changer when it's there and when it's not. It's not exactly what characterize the chute boxe but without it a critical piece is missing in the chute boxe style which then "just" turns into muay thai and jiujitsu, two styles coexisting with each others instead of one unified style/strategy
It is allowed in muay thai to hit your opponent in the face with a low kick, as long as the low kick is in the flow of a combination and your opponent hasn't completely reached the ground, while he's falling typically https://youtu.be/KH2RXZr7R-w?t=85
The penalty/stomp kicks only make more sense in the end, of course the low kick has always been an option as a finishing move in the context of a street fight situation, the stomp kick is also found in karate it's not something new it's a rather old technique actually that only got popularized with wanderlei silva https://youtu.be/ZsIhbtmEe1Y?t=60
Damn that highlight reel of blondie. That fucker's a Savage
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